Description: City construction project is hands on project that involves higher level thinking. Students design creative building using various polygons. They create a layout (map) of a city using a Microsoft PowerPoint and publisher. Students have an option to make a three dimensional model of their city using construction paper. Finally students will calculate the area and perimeter of each building. Not only students enjoy working on this project but they also learn a great deal of mathematics.
Description:You are designing a garden bed, to allow people to grow fresh vegetables, flowers, fruit and herbs year round, with minimal extra heating or cooling. Your design needs to be well planned out in order to maximize the area while utilizing all material. Support all reasoning through sound mathematical evidence.
Description: The goal is to create an elegant design on a coordinate plane using various piecewise functions. You may use either string of linear functions, quadratic functions, absolute value function, or any other functions of your choice.
Skills incorporated:
Writing linear, quadratic, and absolute value function.
Graphing linear, quadratic and absolute value function.
Writing and graphing piecewise function with appropriate domain.
Description: Your goal is to construct a kite from scratch using the properties of kites you learned in geometry class. There are various types of kites but your kite should be the shape of rhombus. You may use any resource available to you including the internet, library to find direction on building a kite.
City Block Construction (Geometry):
Description: City construction project is hands on project that involves higher level thinking. Students design creative building using various polygons. They create a layout (map) of a city using a Microsoft PowerPoint and publisher. Students have an option to make a three dimensional model of their city using construction paper. Finally students will calculate the area and perimeter of each building. Not only students enjoy working on this project but they also learn a great deal of mathematics.Skills incorporated:
Garden Bed Project (Geometry)
Description: You are designing a garden bed, to allow people to grow fresh vegetables, flowers, fruit and herbs year round, with minimal extra heating or cooling. Your design needs to be well planned out in order to maximize the area while utilizing all material. Support all reasoning through sound mathematical evidence.Skills incorporated:
Coordinate graphing project (Algebra 1)
Description: Use the Cartesian plane to plot the order pairs on the axis so a picture is generated by connecting the order pairs.
Piecewise function design (Algebra 2)
Description: The goal is to create an elegant design on a coordinate plane using various piecewise functions. You may use either string of linear functions, quadratic functions, absolute value function, or any other functions of your choice.Skills incorporated:
Building kites project (Geometry)
Description: Your goal is to construct a kite from scratch using the properties of kites you learned in geometry class. There are various types of kites but your kite should be the shape of rhombus. You may use any resource available to you including the internet, library to find direction on building a kite.
Skills incorporated: